> It's like magic. I really mean it: you have to experience it to see> what the thrill is all about. First there was nothing, and then you> make up this new language that the world has never seen before, and> then you go through this mickey-mouse rigamarole described above,> and then suddenly, poof, you pull out the rug and the genie is just> floating there in space, all by itself. Even though you were the> one who did it, you still can't quite believe it. It still makes me> smile, and I've been doing this kind of stuff for over three decades> now.

I sure know the feeling it's great.

After a while I discovered that I was building features into a
language that was good for language implementation and not so
good for the problem at hand.